- Date
- August 8, 2019, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N65401Cessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 11, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190808016019A
- Case key
- 100019
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper decision to turn off the runway while the airplane was moving too fast after landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with a taxiway sign.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The solo student pilot reported that, during the landing roll, she applied the brakes and pulled back on the yoke, but the airplane was traveling too fast to turn off at the taxi intersection she normally used. She became confused about where to turn off the runway, turned left toward the next taxiway intersection too fast, and the airplane exited the runway to the left and struck a taxiway sign. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount. The student reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The solo student pilot reported that during the landing roll, she used brakes and pulled back on the yoke, but the airplane was traveling too fast to turn off at the taxi intersection she normally used. She became confused as to where to turn off the runway, turned left toward the next taxiway intersection too fast, but the airplane exited the runway to the left and struck a taxiway sign. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mount. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airport's automated weather observation station reported that, about 3 minutes after the accident, the wind was from 230° at 4 knots. The student pilot landed the airplane on runway 28.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65401
- Reported as
- Cessna 152 (No Series)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281529
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 20,321.4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-I2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- American Flight Training LLC, doing business as Wayman Avation Academy
- Registered owner
- Delaware Trust Co Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 26, 2019
- Departed
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Destination
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry, runway 28L, 3,255 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 24
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KHWO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 23, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.